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2018 Austin Music Award nominee for Best Songwriter and Austin's New Band is dropping her first debut album on September 20, 2019, and celebrating with an album release show. Come see what this 17-year-old has been up to! Cover is $5 at the door.

Paramount Summer Classic Film Series: This Kurosawa classic's blend of action, comedy, and 16th century Japanese philosophy makes this a cinematic lodestone. The film was remade in America as The Magnificent Seven.

Austin Film Society's nonfiction minifest returns for its second year with an incredible selection of international documentaries, including opening night feature Stanley Nelson's docu-portrait of "The Prince of Darkness" Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool.

See what waterworks are hiding in the backyards of your neighbors. Admission grants you entrance to any of the stops on this self-guided tour. They're not just mosquito magnets, they can be miniecosystems, aquariums, or just a cool place to sit and enjoy the water.

20th Anniversary: Anne Rapp received an Independent Spirit award nomination for Best First Screenplay with Cookie's Fortune, and what a first it was. Commissioned, produced, and directed by Altman, Cookie's Fortune – a crime comedy about a small-town Mississippi family grappling with a family suicide – starred an ensemble cast and led to Altman and Rapp collaborating on Dr. T & the Women. Rapp will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A.

Doc Days: Shot in black and white, Dark Suns probes the wave of kidnappings and murders of countless women in Northern Mexico that began in the second half of the 20th century and converged with the violence from drug cartels in the Nineties. Elie's doc shines a much needed light on the country's victims of extreme violence.

To close this 19th year of making dances for her company, Kathy Dunn Hamrick has revisited pivotal moments from previous works, placed them within new contexts, given them new meaning, and created a whimsical hourlong show that stands alone as an entirely new dance. So now here comes everything KDHDC, in a stunning reinvention of original music scores, graphic art, video, and costumes.

The percussive powerhouse of line upon line presents an evening in which artificial intelligence, synthetic voices, video projection, and bespoke electronic kits imbue two major works by the Costa Rica-born, Vancouver-based composer Mauricio Pauly.

This, in case you somehow didn't know (and please accept our sincere congratulations on finally waking up from that years-long coma, yo, it's good to have you back), is Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop musical about America's Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. Brought to town by the good people of Broadway in Austin, it's a phenomenon that's worthy of its endless hype, and they say tickets are possibly still available if you were born on a full moon, the wind is coming in from the northeast, and the Westlake sibyl dances a clockwise tarantella during consultation. Or, better: See the website right here for the show's two-days-before ticket lottery.

Wanna get the most fun out of fungi? Learn about mushrooms with instructor Daniel Reyes of the Central Texas Mycological Society in a two-day class that combines theory and skills for growing common edible and medicinal mushrooms and provides a framework to integrate this knowledge into a home, garden, or farm. Note: Registration also gets you class notes and slides, mushroom cultivation supplies, and spawn blocks from HiFi Mycology.

The Blanton's latest shindig, presented in conjunction with the current "Copies, Fakes, and Reproductions: Printmaking in the Renaissance" exhibition, offers an afternoon of live performances exploring how musicians and other artists use sampling, imitation, and copying in their creations. featuring Riders Against the Storm, Tetractys, Frank Wo/Men Collective, Transitory Sound Collective, and p1nkstar™. Bonus: Come with your identical twin, or dress like identical twins for free admission; two people dressed like the same celebrity/celebrity impersonator will also be admitted for free.

Women and nonbinary leaders across the great state of Texas are encouraged to apply for one of three micro-grants ($500 to $1,000) now offered by BossBabes ATX! Find info on what it takes and how to apply online.

Amazon's popping up IRL this weekend with this "amusement park of activities and treats" to celebrate four-legged Fidos and their owners. Expect obstacle courses and a tasting kitchen, as well as free dog products including water bowls, treats, and grooming services. Plus, there'll be local dogs up for adoption.

This school of representational art is led by four world-class locals, teaches drawing and painting (both fundamental and advanced programs), has open studios with live modeling, a schedule of workshops featuring visiting artists from around the world, and is located in the heart of Big Medium's Canopy complex. Oh look – we profiled and interviewed the faculty right here!

Susan Scafati's solo exhibition spans three floors and features work (photoprints, sculpture, hand-embellished documents) that expands on the artist's exploration of the ways in which individual identities and mythologies are constructed. And, ah, we love what that Calder Kamin does, and the library's also got a new showcase of her work, "What a Mess," featuring trash transformed into sculptures, animations, and installations, commenting on the mess humans have made for our natural neighbors throughout our existence.